Hewitt Reaches 3rd Round of Japan Open - 2001-10-03

Top seed and U.S. Open tennis champion Lleyton Hewitt of Australia has easily reached the third round of the Japan Open tournament in Tokyo while American Monica Seles scored an easy win in women's play.

Third seed Rainer Schuttler of Germany was a straight-set winner over Magnus Larsson of Sweden (6-3, 7-5).

In the women's draw, Monica Seles scored a straight set win over South Korea's Cho Yoon-Jeong (6-2, 6-3). Japan's Ai Sugiyama overcame a second set loss to beat Slovenia's Katrina Srebotnik in three sets (6-3, 3-6, 6-1).